User:Zeal/Sandbox/Cinematic Narrative History/World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
This page serves to document the narratives told by official Warcraft cinematics, so that they may be consumed outside the game and long after the game is gone. This includes full CGI, pre-rendered, animated and (significant) real-time forms of cutscenes, trailers, advertisements, and other cinematics that include a unique narrative, but excludes actual gameplay.
Click a game's logo in the navigation to view its cinematics.
Where the official YouTube channel has deleted/privated a video, an unofficial source should be used and the official link retained as a dead entry.
As YouTube video titles are typically promotional and/or descriptive in nature, more consistent and accurate labelling should be used where apparent (e.g. patch, zone, quest, etc.), with original parts of video titles included only where appropriate.
The videos are ordered to achieve a cohesive and roughly chronological narrative first, and by original publication date second.
Terminology
Render type
- Real-time
- Rendered in real-time as a scene within the game's engine
- Pre-rendered
- Rendered outside the game, but may use parts of the game's engine or assets
- Full CGI
- Fully rendered outside the game without the use of the game's engine or assets
- Animated
- Key-frame animation, typically in a 2D hand-drawn style
Cinematic type
- Cutscene
- A cinematic that appears during a break in gameplay
- Trailer
- Used to promote a game feature or event
- Advertisement
- Used to promote the sale of the game's products/services
- Music video
- A cinematic developed specifically for a song
- Other
- A cinematic that doesn't fit into any single one of the other categories
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
| # | Video | Label | Render type | Cinematic type | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lore in Short (Classic): | ||||
| 1.1 | 
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The Burning Legion | Animated | Cinematic | 2021 |
| 1.2 |
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The Dark Portal | Animated | Cinematic | 2021 |
| 2 |
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Introduction – The Dark Portal | Full CGI | Cinematic | 2006 |
| 3 |
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Reveal | Pre-rendered | Trailer | 2005 |
| 4 | Races: | ||||
| 4.1 |
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Quel'Thalas Blood Elf introduction | Real-time | Cutscene | 2006 |
| 4.2 |
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Exodar Draenei introduction | Real-time | Cutscene | 2006 |
| 5 |
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Lament of the Highborne | Pre-rendered | Music video | 2007 |
| 6 |
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News From Outland: Crisis at Da Portal! | Pre-rendered | Trailer | 2007 |
| 7 |
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Hellfire Citadel | Pre-rendered | Trailer | 2007 |
| 8 |
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Reveal (Classic) | Pre-rendered | Trailer | 2021 |
| 9 |
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Overlords of Outland (Classic) | Pre-rendered | Trailer | 2021 |
| 10 |
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Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain - I Am Murloc | Pre-rendered | Music video | 2007 |
| 11 | Patch 2.1 – The Black Temple: | ||||
| 11.1 |
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Trailer | Pre-rendered | Trailer | 2007 |
| 11.2 |
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Trailer (Classic) | Pre-rendered | Trailer | 2022 |
| 11.3 |
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Nether Drake | Pre-rendered | Trailer | 2006 |
| 12 |
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Patch 2.2.2 – Brewfest | Pre-rendered | Trailer | 2007 |
| 13 | Patch 2.3 – The Gods of Zul'Aman: | ||||
| 13.1 |
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Trailer | Pre-rendered | Trailer | 2007 |
| 13.2 |
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Trailer (Classic) | Pre-rendered | Trailer | 2022 |
| 13.3 |
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Breaching the Stronghold (Classic) | Pre-rendered | Trailer | 2022 |
| 14 | Patch 2.4 – Fury of the Sunwell: | ||||
| 14.1 |
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Trailer | Pre-rendered | Trailer | 2008 |
| 14.2 |
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The Magister's Terrace – Seeing into the Sunwell Plateau | Real-time | Cutscene | 2008 |
| 14.3 |
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Trailer (Classic) | Pre-rendered | Trailer | 2022 |